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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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OPINION

If Obama Can Bring Change to DC, Why Not Middle East?

He's proved having a black president isn't impossible, after all

Jan 5, 09 3:34 PM CST
(Newser) - As Barack Obama’s inauguration brings one thing once deemed impossible—a black US president—it will be accompanied by the renewal of another seemingly intractable issue, David Remnick writes in the New Yorker: the Arab-Israeli conflict. Obama claims to understand “the obligation to repair the world” set out... More »

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diplomacy • Gaza • White House • Israel and Palestinians • leadership • inauguration • history of democracy • President Obama

10 Score Later, America Still Loves Lincoln

As bicentennial nears, an industry springs up around Honest Abe

May 19, 08 4:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Honest Abe may be gone, but an industry of books, debates, and a Spielberg biopic are all alive and well. With Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial coming next year, all three White House hopefuls have invoked his name, and the US Mint is issuing pennies to honor states where he lived. "... More »

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Steven Spielberg • America • publishing • history • Abraham Lincoln • history of democracy

Magna Carta Back in US Archives

Carlyle Group founder returns it after buying for $21.3M

Mar 4, 08 5:35 PM CST
(Newser) - The Magna Carta returned to the National Archives yesterday after facing an uncertain fate on the auction block last year, the Washington Post reports. The 13th-century English document, a precursor to the US Bill of Rights 500 years later, is now on permanent loan from a US businessman who bought... More »

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Bill of Rights • democracy • Carlyle Group • David Rubenstein • Magna Carta • National Archives • history of democracy • Declaration of Independence

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